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Commit aca7573f authored by Vaibhav Jain's avatar Vaibhav Jain Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc: Avoid signed to unsigned conversion in set_thread_tidr()



There is an unsafe signed to unsigned conversion in set_thread_tidr()
that may cause an error value to be assigned to SPRN_TIDR register and
used as thread-id.

The issue happens as assign_thread_tidr() returns an int and
thread.tidr is an unsigned-long. So a negative error code returned
from assign_thread_tidr() will fail the error check and gets assigned
as tidr as a large positive value.

To fix this the patch assigns the return value of assign_thread_tidr()
to a temporary int and assigns it to thread.tidr iff its '> 0'.

The patch shouldn't impact the calling convention of set_thread_tidr()
i.e all -ve return-values are error codes and a return value of '0'
indicates success.

Fixes: ec233ede("powerpc: Add support for setting SPRN_TIDR")
Signed-off-by: default avatarVaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristophe Lombard <clombard@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 2621e945
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